In his attempt to "Speak Dolphins," Jack Kassewitz from SpeakDolphin.com, based in Miami, Florida, has designed an experiment in which he has recorded dolphin echo sounds reflected from sinking objects, including a plastic cube, duck, and flower pot.

Speaking of advanced civilizations, it really has the ability to create some very precisely defined images and patterns in the brain. Originally, this ability was also human, see references to the green tongue or bird's speech. Gradually, from human language, this ability faded away, hand in hand with how the human brain stung ...

Discover the dolphin language

(November 2011) Researchers in the United States and Britain have made a significant breakthrough in the deciphering of the dolphin language, in which the eight dolphins were identified by the sound dolphins. Team Leader Jack Kassewitz from SpeakDolphin.com spoke with dolphins using the words of dolphins made from sound images. Dolphins in two separate research centers understood the words and provided convincing evidence that the dolphins use a universal "audio-visual" language for communication.

The team was able to teach dolphins simple and complex sentences, including nouns and verbs, and discovered that dolphins understood elements of the human language as well as their own complex visual language. Kassewitz commented, "We are beginning to understand the visual aspects of their language, for example, in identifying eight dolphin visual sounds for nouns recorded using a hydrophone when the dolphins performed the echolocation of a series of sunk plastic objects."

British member John Stuart Reid, a research team member, used the CymaScope, a visible sound device to better understand how the dolphins see through the sound. He pictured a series of test pieces created by one of the dolphins studied.

In his attempt to "Speak Dolphins," Jack Kassewitz from SpeakDolphin.com, based in Miami, Florida, has designed an experiment in which he has recorded dolphin echo sounds reflected from sinking objects, including a plastic cube, duck, and flower pot. He discovers that the reflected sounds actually contain sounds, and when dolphins are played in the form of a game, the dolphins are able to identify objects with 86% accuracy, which has provided evidence that the dolphin understands echo sounds like pictures. Kassewitz then went to another facility and played back the sounds of the dolphin, who had no previous experience with them. The second dolphin identified objects of a similarly high degree of success and confirmed that dolphins use the audio-visual form of communication. Some researchers have suspected that dolphins use the sono-visual sense of a "predator" approaching their family to send the picture to the other members of the flock and to realize them about the dangers. In this scenario, it is assumed that the image of the predator perceives the other dolphins with the eye of the mind.

When Reid displayed the reflected echo sounds on CymaScope, it was possible for the first time to see the audio-visual images created by the dolphin. The resulting images resemble typical ultrasound images seen in hospitals. Reid explained, "When the dolphin scans the subject with its high-frequency sound beam, transmitted in the form of short cranks, each knob captures a still image, similar to taking pictures of the camera. Each dolphin crank is a pulse of pure sound, which becomes the modulated shape of the subject. In other words, the reflected sound pulse includes a semi-holographic representation of the subject. Part of the reflected sound is captured by the dolphin's lower jaw, in which it travels with double fat filled with "acoustic tubes" into its inner ear, creating a sono-image. "

The exact mechanism of how the sound image is "read" by the cochlea is not yet known, but the team came up with the hypothesis that each pulse-click makes the image immediately appear on the basilar and tectric membrane, the thin coats found in the center of each kochley. Microscopic algae connect with the tectonic membrane and "read" the shape of the imprint, creating a composite electrical signal representing the shape of the object. This electrical signal goes to the brain through the cochlear nerve and is interpreted as an image.

(The example in the picture shows a flowerpot.) Thus, the dolphins are able to perceive stereoscopically with their sound imaging senses. Because the dolphins issue long sets of short pulse-clicks, they are believed to have a perpetual sound-image perception, like playing video where a series of motionless pictures are seen as moving pictures.

Reid said: "The CymaScope imaging technique replaces the circular water membrane with a teflon-like dolphin-like membrane, and a dolphin-to-brain camera. We visualize the sound image as a fingerprint on the surface tension of water, when we call this technique "bio-cymatical imaging" capturing an image before it crosses its boundaries. We think that something like this happens in the dolphin cochlea, where the sound image contained in the reflected crank pulse travels like a surface acoustic wave across the basilar and the tectonic membrane and impresses in an area that is related to the carrier frequency of the crank pulse. We believe that using this imaging technique we see a similar picture as the dolphin sees when scanning the subject with sound. In the picture of the pot can be seen even the hand of the person holding it. The images are somewhat indefinite yet, but we hope to improve the technique in the future. "

Dr. Horace Dobbs is director of International Dolphin Watch and a leading authority in dolphin therapy. "I consider the dolphin mechanism of sound imaging, designed by Jack Kassewitz and John Stuart Reid to be possible from a scientific point of view. I have long maintained that dolphins have a sound-visual language, so I am naturally pleased that this research has provided rational explanations and experimental data to confirm my guesswork. Already in 1994, in the book I wrote for children, Dilo and the Deep Call, I have mentioned Dil's "magical sound" as a method that Dilo and his mother transmit information using sound imaging, not only external visual shapes, organ structure. "

Thanks to Reid's bio-cymek imaging technique, Kassewitz, in collaboration with researcher Christopher Brown from the University of Central Florida, is developing a new model of the dolphin language, called the SPOEL (Sound and Image Exo-Holographic Language). Kassewitz explained: "The" exo-holographic "part of the abbreviation is derived from the fact that the dolphin image language is essentially spread around the dolphin whenever one or more dolphins from the flock send or receive sound images. John Stuart Reid found that all the small parts of the reflected echo beam delphinous beam contained all the data needed to recreate the image in the laboratory, or, as he claims, in the dolphin brain. Our new model of dolphin language says that dolphins can not only send and receive images of objects around them, but they can also create completely new audio-visual images just by imagining what they want to communicate. For us as a people, it is perhaps disturbing to step outside of our symbolic thought process and truly appreciate the dolphin world, in which, as we believe, the picture rather than the symbolic thoughts reign. Our personal submissiveness, belief, ideology and memories penetrate and surround all of our communication, including the description and understanding of something without symbols like SPEL. Dolphins seem to have overcome the human symbolic language and have instead developed a form of communication outside the human development path. In a sense, we now have a "Rosetta Plate" that will allow us to connect to their world in a way we did not even imagine a year ago. The old word "one picture tells more than a thousand words" suddenly acquires new meaning. "

David M. Cole, founder of AquaThought, a research organization that has been studying human-dolphin interaction for more than a decade, said: "Kassewitz and Reid have contributed a new model of dolphin sound perception, which almost certainly evolved from the need of this creature to perceive its underwater the world when it is impossible to see. Several conventional linguistic approaches to understanding dolphin communications in the last 20 years have come to an end, so it is refreshing to see that this new and highly different paradigm is being explored. "

The language's ability to learn is the acquisition and use of a complex system of vocal sounds that we attach to a specific meaning. Language, the relationship between sounds and meanings, developed with each tribe and nation differently. It is generally believed that the ability of the human language is fundamentally different from that of other species and that it is much more complex. The development of the vocal tongue was supposed to begin after the volume of the brain increased. Many researchers have been surprised why dolphins have a brain size comparable to human, because nature creates organs as needed. The Kassewitz team's findings suggest that the dolphin needs a big brain because it is necessary for the acquisition and use of the audio-visual language that requires significant brain mass.

Dolphins have permanent sound and visual stimulation throughout their lives, a fact that can contribute to their coordination of brain hemispheres. The Dolphin Hearing Cortical Field extends far into the middle brain and affects the motor regions in such a way that they allow for fine-tuned sound-induced motor activity, as well as complex fonts needed to create signature whistles and sound images. These benefits are powered not only by a brain that is comparable to the human but also the transmission time of the brain stem, which is significantly shorter than that of the human brain.

Kassewitz said: "Our research provided an answer to the old question, which Dr. Jill Tarter of the SETI Institute - "Are We Alone?". Now we can clearly answer "no". The non-human intelligence that SETI is looking for in space has been found right here on Earth in the elegant form of dolphins. "